Personal statement

Sintip Pattanakuhar, MD, PhD is a rehabilitation physician and a clinician scientist, focusing on improving the quality of life of people with physical limitations, especially those who live with spinal cord injuries, by using multimodal research approaches - from cells to community. After receiving a Doctor of Medicine degree from Mahidol University, Thailand, in 2004 and a Diplomat Thai Board of Rehabilitation Medicine from Chiang Mai University, Thailand, in 2014, he stepped out from routine clinical works by completing a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Medical Sciences degree from Chiang Mai University, Thailand, in 2019, with a dissertation of “Effects of Exercise and Caloric Restriction on Skeletal Muscle Mitochocrial Functions in Obese-insulin Resistance Rats”. In 2022, he obtained a Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for conducting research in health service utilization for people with spinal cord injuries at Swiss Paraplegic Research in Nottwil, which is the largest non-university research centre in Switzerland, for one year. He switched his role from clinician researcher to full-time clinical researcher as well as moved from Thailand to Scotland in 2025. His current research focus is to apply a Nanokicking cellular vibration concept for reversing osteoporosis, starting with people with spinal cord injuries, by collaborating with the Scottish Centre for Innovation in Spinal Cord Injury (SCISCI) of the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Unit (QENSIU).